Fellowship supports Ph.D. research on land markets in India

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Doctoral candidate Aman Banerji , whose research explores the making of ‘global’ cities and land markets, has received the 2022 Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) International Dissertation Research Fellowship . With the award, Banerji...
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  • Global Development
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Dudley appointed to National Advisory Council on Migrant Health

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Mary Jo Dudley, director of the Cornell Farmworker Program (CFP) and senior extension associate in Global Development, has been named to the National Advisory Council on Migrant Health ( NACMH) . The fifteen member council’s mission is to...
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  • Global Development
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Houlton: Invest in ag research to fight climate change

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Benjamin Z. Houlton, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, testified June 15 to the U.S. House Agriculture Committee on the role of climate research in supporting agricultural resiliency.

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  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
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  • Health + Nutrition
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Inaugural Turner Fellows advance global food security

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Eight graduate students from 1890 land grant institutions across the United States have been selected as part of the inaugural cohort of Thomas Wyatt Turner Fellows at Cornell University. Representing a wide range of research specialties...
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  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food Science
  • Global Development Section
  • Microbiology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Study: dietary guidelines need revision to account for environmental impact

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Dietary guidelines issued by national governments aim to set a roadmap for healthy living. But a new study challenges national dietary guidelines assessments to include the environmental impact of food production, with implications for how dietary guidelines account not just for the health of the human population, but also the planet.
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  • Food
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Enhanced Reactions for Large-Scale Biofuel Production

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Cost-effective waste-to-energy technologies are critical components of a future green economy. Jillian L. Goldfarb, Biological and Environmental Engineering, is developing techniques for exerting greater control over hydrothermal liquefaction reactions, which transforms organic wastes into renewable liquid biofuels.
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  • Energy
  • Climate Change
  • Nature

New status for Cornell Tech Farm will drive economic growth

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The Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park (Tech Farm) in Geneva, NY has been recognized as a New York State Certified Business Incubator. The designation will lead to additional resources for current and future tenants and drive economic...
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  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Institute for Food Safety
  • Food Science
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